REPERCUSSION: This blog is devoted mainly to two groups
active primarily in the 1980s — groups at times lumped in with the
so-called “New Wave”. So, at some point, I wanted to post something by this
group. Otherwise, there’s no connection between our heroes from Winston-Salem,
NC and the Tee Hedz from NYC.

SAMPLE: "Take Me to the River (Central Park 1980)"

01
Warning Sign (beginning cut, fades in)*

02 Stay Hungry03 Cities04 band intros05 I Zimbra06 Once In A Lifetime07 Houses In Motion08 Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)09 Crosseyed and Painless (fades in)**10 Take Me to the River11 The Great Curve

*first
song in the set, Psycho Killer, is not included here

**Life
During Wartime from this show was officially released, so is omitted here
(would have been the track before “Take Me to the River”)

ROB SEZ: I’ve tried to make it hard for the Internet music police to find this post.
I’ve misspelled the name of the band and its original members. When Hans De V began sharing his amazing Tee Hedz tape collection a while back, the powers-that-be were all over his posts, and they disappeared
quickly. I don’t want to jeopardize my humble little blog by calling attention
to posts like this.

Friday, February 8

BIG
THANKSto the recorder and sharer (wish
I could be more specific than that)

BY REQUEST

photo by Jutta Brandt Knust

REPERCUSSION: Peter joined the Continental Drifters in
the early 1990s after The dB's were kaput, and he stayed with the group until
it disbanded circa 2003. While they were active, the Drifters recorded several
of Peter's songs, so if you enjoy his singing and songwriting, those discs are
definitely worth seeking out. Their music is excellent!(Here’s another
Drifters show I posted a while back.)

Tuesday, February 5

ALBUM RELEASE DAY, new video, another live date. As I listen to the iTunes download of Lovesick Blues (!), here's some scoop on what's next as Chris and his label sell the music world on his great new album:

NEW VIDEO FOR THE SONG 'LOVESICK BLUES'

SHORTER, EDITED VERSION

FULL VERSION

Meanwhile, another live performance date has been added (in addition to the ones I've already listed on the News Page): Philadelphia, PA (World Cafe Live Upstairs), 3025 Walnut Street, Sunday, Feb. 17. More details are HERE.

IF YOU ENJOY THIS ONE, be sure to check out my earlier post of The dB's debut album, Stands for deciBels REVISITED. It's HERE.

ROB SEZ: Instead of just posting the
fairly common Demos 1982-83 set, I decided to use a selection of them plus some
live tracks to create a “Like This
REVISITED” comp. The dB’s third album is a triumph, especially given several
big challenges — not the least of which was Chris leaving the band just as The
dB’s were finally getting their first U.S. record deal.

In case you’re not familiar with them, the demos
date from that transitional time after the release of Repercussion, just before Chris left the group, and before the
Peter-led dB’s signed with Bearsville Records in 1984. The source is probably a
multi-generation cassette dub, so the sound quality is a tad muddy at times and
there’s a bit of hiss on some tracks. I did my best to clean them up.

The live tracks are standouts from 3 shows
during the “Like This” tour: Columbia, MO, July 16, 1984 (The Blue Note);
Chapel Hill, NC, March 16, 1985 (Cat’s Cradle); and Chicago, IL, Dec. 5, 1984
(Cabaret Metro). The first is a VG+ quality audience recording and the latter
two are FM broadcasts. As usual, I used lossless sources for all the above. BIG
THANKS to all the tapers and sharers, especially TheBynumite for his FM capture of the
Cat’s Cradle show! NOTE: don't be put off by the less-than-perfect sound quality of Track 1 -- the remaining tracks sound considerably better.

The “bonus tracks” for this collection are: the
demo of “Darby Hall” (which was a bonus track on the original CD release), the
demo of “Elvis, What Happened?” (Peter must've had a serious Elvis fetish before the scales fell from his eyes…), and a couldn’t-resist-it repeat of the
album’s first song, in demo form.

For extra enjoyment, read Peter’s essay about
writing “Love Is for Lovers” and hear an excerpt from the original demo of “Do
You Believe This?” at a New York Times
blog here:

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